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Jyaif 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company...

> Is Google out there monitoring the IDE activity of every engineer, logging the amount of code created, by what, lines, characters, and how it was generated

A good chunk () of their code goes in a centralized repo, and is written via a centralized web IDE. So measuring everything you mentioned is not hard.

() Android, Chrome, and other similar projects are exceptions.

avsteele 6 months ago [–]

How does this allow them to measure the % generated by AI tooling?

Jyaif 6 months ago | [–]

The IDE integrates the AI generator, like copilot.

Yes, they'll miss AI-generated code that is copy pasted, so they only have a lower bound of AI-generated code.

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